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The Parshah Pinchas Feminist Dvar Torah Roundup Spectacular

June 25, 2013 by Patrick Beaulier

feminist

No way around it, Parshah Pinchas is about the power of women to stand together in solidarity: and how God is completely cool with that.

So in honor of that spirit, we bring you a boat load of dvrei Torah on the awesomeness of community and bucking tradition…for the sake of tradition!

A Spear, A Dead Man and The Sisters (Circle Pit the Bimah)

Whose Voice Will Rise? Parshah Pinchas

We Stole This Week’s Dvar From G-dCast.com

Transitions and Trust (PunkTorah TV)

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We Stole This Week’s D’var (Parshat Pinchas)

July 11, 2011 by Patrick Beaulier

There are two things in life I will never be: a self-styled electro gurl indie hip hop/pop star, and a brilliant Torah scholar.

So in light of that, this week’s Torah portion is stolen from our friends at G-dcast. The narrator is Hesta Prynn, and if you don’t know who that is, then clearly you don’t live in NY. Watch and learn.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhZoihnMII0

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Parshah Pinchas: Transition and Trust

June 30, 2010 by Patrick Beaulier

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeL_NU-XyWM

This week’s Torah portion is about accepting change. And I’m not talking about loose change.

A guy named Zelophehad dies…and unlucky for him, Zelophehad had no sons, no one to pass his inheritance to. But he did have daughters. And these daughters were angry that their father’s lot would not be given to them. So they protest to Moses and Moses talks to G-d. The result: G-d agrees that sexism is unfair, and the law of inheritance is passed so that women would be included.

Another change happens: Moses knows that his time is running out on this Earth. The Hebrews are about to enter the Promised Land and Moses does not get to go with them. So G-d tells Moses that Joshua will be the new leader. Moses is commanded to lay his hands upon Joshua in front of the Hebrews showing his status as the future Jewish Commander In Chief.

Change is tough: it forces people to confront their boundaries and limits. It’s easier to keep life as static and simple as possible, so you’ll never experience growing paints. But change is a part of life. Get over it. Move on.

So Moses hands the keys to the kingdom over to Joshua. Here’s this guy, hand picked by G-d out of all of the Israelites, to be the new leader. Even with how Moses must have felt about turning things over to “the new guy”, there had to be some sense of trust there. I mean, G-d chose Joshua!

G-d told Moses who would be the next leader. I know that if I were retiring from a company that I started if G-d told me who would be my successor I would trust His judgment. So in this there is some comfort to Moses, that the guy taking his place was at least good enough to be selected by the Divine. And that is important.

G-d knew Joshua wasn’t Moses, and he never would be. G-d knew the time for Moses was over, it was time for a fresh perspective, some new leadership. Was Joshua going to screw up? Of course! Obviously even Moses messed up. But that’s okay.

What that says to me is that Hashem knows that things change (He made them that way!) so sometimes new leadership is necessary. And even Moses had to learn that, to trust in the way that things were going and that G-d wouldn’t let things get out of hand.

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NSFW: Parsha Pinchas…G-d Can Change G-d’s Mind…Why Can’t You?

July 7, 2009 by Patrick Beaulier

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpfEC_VkhlU

Warning: foul language

Apparently G-d is a rational thinker, so why aren’t you?

This week’s parsha deals with how G-d understands the covenant with Israel. And it makes me wonder why so many people are so damn close minded!

Filed Under: Jewish Text (Torah/Haftarah/Talmud), Podcasts & Videos Tagged With: darshan yeshiva, feminism, gender equality, Israel, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, Parsha, parshat, patrick "aleph" beaulier, patrick aleph, pinchas, punktorah, rabbi beaulier, rabbi patrick aleph beaulier, Religion, ten commandments, Torah

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